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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
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In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.
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Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
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Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
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The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
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The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.
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Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.
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